Re: I2 with Solid Impact -- "main screen no turn on"

From: barefoot (pphamAT_at_uqDOT.netDOT.au)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: 30 Aug 2004 05:06:13 GMT

"S.C.Sprong" <s.c.sprong@student.utwente.nl> writes:

>UNIX admin <tripivceta@hotmail.com> wrote:
>[ resurrecting Indigo2 ]

>>I got a Solid Impact gfx board in the machine, and I bought a 13W3
>>(supposedly for SGI) to HD15 converter. However, when I hooked up a PC
>>bucket monitor (Compaq MV740), I get no signal.

>The most often quoted solution is to destroy the sync pins in the
>(expensive!) convertor. My favourite solution is to use a monitor
>that can handle 5-poled BNC input (R, G, B, Hsync, Vsync), use a 5
>poled BNC video cable and leave both sync inputs unconnected and
>set the monitor to accept sync on-green. The IIyama Vision Master
>Pro series work well with both SGI and Sun hardware.

Greg Douglas has made a number of posts on comp.sys.sgi.* about why this
is so, the poster should search for it. The symmtoms exhibited are exactly
the same as my monitor prior to the lopping off of ALL the small pins.

>>does anybody know what the SGI P/N for a mini DIN <---> DB9 is,
>>and where I could obtain it (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)?

I paid $20.00 for a mac lc475, put zterm on it, and another $10.00 for a
mac modem cable and voila! The only hassle I had was figuring out what
speed the serial port works at which was 9600bps on my octane.

Cheers
barefoot

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